Naming guidelines: outdated info about tilde in version

[Ville Skyttä]

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Version_Tag

'Non-use of tilde "~"': The outdated "it is not supported by rpm in
currently supported Fedora releases." bullet point should be removed
-- in fact there's no currently supported Fedora release where rpm
wouldn't support it.

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 21.12.2013 17:36, Ville Skyttä napsal(a):
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Version_Tag
>
> 'Non-use of tilde "~"': The outdated "it is not supported by rpm in
> currently supported Fedora releases." bullet point should be removed
> -- in fact there's no currently supported Fedora release where rpm
> wouldn't support it.
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I opened FPC ticket for this: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/398

I am currently working on RPM dependency generator for RubyGems and it
would be helpful to properly handle versions such as 4.1.0.rc1. While
this fails:

$ rpmdev-vercmp 4.1.0 4.1.0.rc1
4.1.0 < 4.1.0.rc1

It could be transformed into

$ rpmdev-vercmp 4.1.0 4.1.0~rc1
4.1.0 > 4.1.0~rc1

Which works as expected.

Vít

[Miro Hrončok]

> It could be transformed into
>
> $ rpmdev-vercmp 4.1.0 4.1.0~rc1
> 4.1.0 > 4.1.0~rc1

According to current guidelines, rc1 belongs to release tag.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Pre-Release_packag...

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[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 27.2.2014 11:48, Miro Hrončok napsal(a):
> > It could be transformed into
> >
> > $ rpmdev-vercmp 4.1.0 4.1.0~rc1
> > 4.1.0 > 4.1.0~rc1
>
> According to current guidelines, rc1 belongs to release tag.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Pre-Release_packag...

That is easy as long as you manually updating the package. But I am
writing provides generator for RubyGems.

Lets say I have package foo-4.1.0.rc1. The generator is going to
generate provide such as "rubygem(foo) = 4.1.0.rc1" which is always
higher then the stable 4.1.0. What should I do in this case?

The tilde provides elegant solution, i.e. I transform the last dot into
tilde and everything is just perfect. I could drop the rc1 entirely, but
that is completely different version.

Vít